Barton, Emily. Brookland. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
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PS3552.A7685B76 2006
A tale of 18th-century sisters, one with a dream to bridge the East River.

Bolaqo, Roberto. Last Evenings on Earth, translated by Chris Andrews. New York: New Directions Books, 2006.
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PQ8098.12.O38A2 2006
The Pinochet years haunt these stories by a Chilean writer who died in 2003.

Desai, Kiran. The Inheritance of Loss. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006.
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PS3554.E82I54 2006
The poised story, set in northern India, of disparate characters united by the toxic legacy of colonialism.

Egan, Jennifer. The Keep. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
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PS3555.G292K44 2006
Old grievances drive the plot of this novel, set in a castle and a prison. Egan deftly weaves threads of sordid realism and John Fowles-like magic.

Eisenberg, Deborah. Twilight of the Superheroes. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
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PS3555.I793T87 2006
A contemporary master of the short story leavens familial angst with mordant humor in her fifth collection in 20 years.

Freudenberger, Nell. The Dissident. New York: Ecco, c2006.
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PS3606.R479D57 2006
A Chinese artist is a guest of a dysfunctional Beverly Hills family in this debut novel of global misunderstanding.

Fugard, Lisa. Skinner's Drift. London: Viking, 2005.
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PR9349.4.F84S55 2005x
A white farm family is the foreground of this novel; behind it, the sins of South Africa.

Gilmore, Jennifer. Golden Country. New York: Scribner, 2006.
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PS3607.I4525G55 2006
In this debut novel, two Jewish families seek material success and social acceptance across the decades of the 20th century.

Ginsberg, Allen. Collected Poems, 1947-1997. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
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PS3513.I74 2006
A hefty, brilliant volume that shows Ginsberg (1926-97) to be not only a legendary protest writer but also a lyric poet preoccupied with passion, place and fate.

Grushin, Olga. The Dream Life of Sukhanov. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005.
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PS3607.R85D74 2005
A Soviet artist sacrifices his talent for the party in this first novel.

Hempel, Amy. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel. New York: Scribner, 2006.
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PS3558.E47916A6 2006
The themes of Hempel's unsettling and blackly funny vignettes - mortality, desire and fear of human connection - are threaded with only the slenderest hopes of redemption.

Houellebecq, Michael. The Possibility of an Island, translated by Gavin Bowd. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005.
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PQ2668.O77P6713 2005
In this new novel from the French author, a radical libertine becomes the progenitor of a line of clones.

Jones, Edward P. All Aunt Hagar's Children. New York: Amistad, 2006.
Harper Library
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PS3560.O4813A77 2006
Several characters from Jones's first story collection return in this one, set mostly in Washington, D.C.

Julavits, Heidi. The Uses of Enchantment. New York: Doubleday, 2006.
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PS3560.U522U84 2006
A teenage girl is either a victim or a false accuser in this dark-humored novel of psychoanalysis and prep school angst.

Khoury, Elias. Gate of the Sun, translated by Humphrey Davies. Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books ; St. Paul, MN : Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, c2005.
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PJ7842.H823B3313 2005
A rich novel of the Arab experience, full of pain but tempered by hope.

King, Stephen. Lisey's Story. New York: Scribner, 2006.
Harper Library
PS3561.I483L57 2006
In this haunting love story, the widow of a celebrated writer takes up arms against a murderous stalker in this world and a blood-hungry beast in the world beyond.

Kinnell, Galway. Strong is Your Hold. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
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Kinnell's first collection of new poems in more than a decade revisits themes of marriage, friendship and death, with long, loose lines reminiscent of Whitman.

Long, David. The Inhabited World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
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PS3562.O4924I54 2006
This novel's hero, a ghost, looks back ruefully on his suicide and longs to help a woman survive her own despair.

McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Harper Library
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A man and his son travel across a post-apocalyptic landscape in this terrifying parable.

Messud, Claire. The Emperor's Children. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
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PS3563.E8134E47 2006
The shocks of 9/11 disrupt the privileged lives of a group of young urban media types in this nimble, satirically chiding novel.

Mitchell, David. Black Swan Green: A Novel. New York: Random House, 2006.
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PR6063.I785B58 2006
The magic of being a 13-year-old boy and exploring the world intersects, eventually, with the trials of real life.

Nimirovsky, Irhne. Suite Frangaise, translated by Sandra Smith. New York: Alfred A. Knopf; 2006.
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PQ2627.E4S8513 2006
Before dying at Auschwitz in 1942, Nimirovsky wrote these two exquisitely shaped novellas about France in defeat. But the manuscripts came to light only in the late '90s.

Pessl, Marisha. Special Topics in Calamity Physics. New York: Viking, 2006.
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PS3616.E825S67 2006
A motherless waif whose life has been shaped by road trips with her father joins a circle of students around a charismatic teacher with a tragic secret.

Powers, Richard. The Echo Maker. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
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PS3566.O92E27 2006
This novel's heroine tries to help her brother after a mysterious truck crash leaves him with a rare form of amnesia.

Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
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PS3566.Y55A73 2006
In Pynchon's globe-trotting tale, set (mostly) on the eve of World War I, anarchic Americans collide with quasi-psychic European hedonists and a crew of boyish balloonists, anticipating the shocks to come.

Shteyngart. Gary. Absurdistan. New York: Random House, 2006.
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PS3619.H79A63 2006
A young American-educated Russian with an ill-gotten fortune waits to return to the United States in this darkly comic novel.

Spiotta, Dana. Eat the Document. New York: Scribner, 2006.
Harper Library
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PS3619.P566E18 2006
After years underground, '70s radicals who are haunted by the past and insecure in the present reunite and face their crime's consequences.

Updike, John. Terrorist. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Harper Library
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PS3571.P4T44 2006
Updike's latest novel knits together preoccupations that have been with him for some 50 years - sex, death, religion - as an American high school boy, half-Irish, half-Egyptian, is intoxicated by Islamic radicalism.

Uzodinma, Iweala. Beasts of No Nation. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
Harper Library
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PS3609.W43B43 2005
A first novel set in an unidentified West African land; its hero finds himself corrupted by contagious violence.

Ward Just, Ward. Forgetfulness. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.
Harper Library
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PS3560.U75F67 2006
In this novel, one of Just's best, a small-time American spy uneasily revisits his earlier life after his French wife is murdered.

Whitehead, Colson.Apex Hides the Hurt. New York: Doubleday, 2006.
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PS3573.H4768A85 2006
In this parablelike novel, a commercial "nomenclature consultant" is hired to name a Midwestern town, and his task turns into an exploration of the corruption of language.

Yehoshua, A.B.A Woman in Jerusalem: A Passion in Three Parts, translated by Hillel Halkin. London: Peter Halban, 2006
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PJ5054.Y42 S4913 2006
This novel's hero journeys to return a woman's body to her family in a remote former Soviet Republic.